Carpesium triste
StarCarpesium triste
Synonyms: Carpesium tristiforme, Carpesium pseudotracheliifolium, Carpesium manshuricum
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In China, Korea and Japan the root, stem, leaf and fruit of Carpesium triste have long been used in traditional medicine to treat fevers, mastitis, toothache and diarrhoea, attributed to the plant's anti-inflammatory, antifebrile and styptic (astringent) properties (Wang et al., 2015).
Botanical Description
Carpesium triste is a rare perennial herb of the aster family (Asteraceae) distributed through China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan, where it grows in forest margins, shaded grassy slopes, streamsides and moist montane meadows. It forms a basal rosette and erect, sparsely branched stems up to about 50 to 100 centimetres tall, clothed in soft hairs. The leaves are alternate, the lower ones large, oblong to ovate and narrowed into a winged petiole, the upper ones progressively smaller and sessile. The nodding flower heads are solitary or few in the upper leaf axils and at the stem tips, discoid and yellowish, lacking showy ray florets and subtended by leafy bracts. The fruits are small, narrow, ribbed achenes bearing a glandular beak. The genus is noted for its bitter sesquiterpene lactones.
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